steelboy

What kind of research? The bit of land is everyone is looking at up at Ravenscraig has sat empty for close to 30 years now. There has to be a possibility that the reason nothing has ever been built on it is because the land is contaminated. Have you researched that? It's impossible to for anyone to accurately estimate price because the cost of materials and equipment is massively variable due to global instability and inflation. No one in 2019 could have predicted the cost of anything in 2027. Delivering a new main stand will be a very challenging project for the club. Delivering a stadium on a brownfield site requiring utilities, access roads, civil engineering and landscaping is far more complex. The club's non football operations are very simple we sell tickets, take our collectively agreed SPFL money and run a very small commercial operation. A single project that costs multiple times our turnover with no ceiling on cost and is beyond the expertise of anyone employed or involved with the club is an incredible amount of risk to take on. It's the future of our club, not an episode of Grand Designs.

I'm confident the club have the competence to agree a lease with DHSWMT that protects our interests. Other people might disagree but if we can't make Dalziel Park work for us it's hard to imagine that we would have the competence to acquire land and build a new training ground from scratch.

What are you concerned about?

Building a clubhouse and upgrading the training pitches doesn't involve selling club assets or taking on debt. It also doesn't determine 'where our primary operations will be based' because our primary operation is playing matches at Fir Park. We need better training facilities. Working with Dalziel War Memorial Trust to upgrade Dalziel Park is by far the best option. Buying land (where?) and building a completely new facility would cost a fortune and take years. I've also been reading your posts about a new stadium and you are clearly massively underestimating how much a completely new stadium would cost never mind a new stadium and combined training facility.

That's roughly 5 million civilians killed by bombing. Sounds like a great guy.

Aye but they are the ones playing dress up outside the ground.

Halliday definitely makes himself bigger with the position of his arm. It's a strange one because the law doesn't account for players closing their eyes, turning their back and trying to get out the way of the ball.'

It's getting a bit harder to take it seriously now the youngest WW2 veterans are mid 90s.

Clearly that was never the intention and the plan was to use them as Trojan horses to get them into the league then have them in the Championship filled with non Scottish players.

Ewan Wilson has been impressive playing every minute of every game. I've not really heard much about how Ferrie, Wells and Ross are doing on loan but I still feel that we would better off having these players here to focus on strength and conditioning and learning to play at our level rather than part time football with loads of extra travelling.

Btw putting the away fans in the top tier is tinpot stuff and pathetic from a fan owned club.

Obika, Wilkinson, Shaw, Stama, Watt, Moses, Robinson and Stuparevic. Kettlewell really does have an eye for a player.

Between the manager who is Steve Clarke with a barnet, the fact we have no decent strikers and have to play Halliday and Davor in midfield then there's not much chance of seeing much football. 34% at home to St Johnstone is criminal. It feels a bit like McCall's last full season where we were dire but still managed to finish second on pure grit.

Dunfermline made a halftime sub of Joe Chalmers coming on for Craig Clay. I used to have nightmares about that.

No ref was going to let Balmer away with that. He's just not very bright.

Halliday is completely done. He was blowing out his arse after 20 mins. Get him a half season ticket for Ibrox, a Celtic one for Fat Tony and a wee Saturday job somewhere for Davor and we'll be looking a lot better going forward.

Casey or Balmer. I went for Casey due to the tackle near the end.

It wasn't for a foul throw. Balmer stole 10 yards when the ref spoke to Miller and the defender. The ref then told Balmer to get back and Balmer acknowledged him then just threw it in without moving back. You can tell Balmer is Irish.

Stama giving us nothing. Get Moses on.

Halliday is a dick.

Two good goals and a wee bit of fitba. Brilliant.

I'm laughing at the unacceptable conduct warning on the tannoy after letting the Celtic fans take the piss.

A back 4 today? I can't believe Tavares is on the bench again. It will be hilarious if he brings him on.

The long ball tactics against Dundee were some of the worst I've ever seen so hopefully we will aim to play some football today.

As i've said that's down to a core of managers who are happy to spoil games and hope to grab something then go on the BBC and insult the intelligence of anyone who actually saw the game. Kettlewell, Robinson, Goodwin, Gray and McInnes are all killing this league.